Sampling feed for mycotoxins: acquiring knowledge from food

Prevention of exposure to mycotoxins from food and feed.

Mycotoxins are metabolites of moulds that may be found in food and feed of plant and animal origin. This paper gives a short review of the agronomical methods and food and feed storage recommendations for the prevention of mould contamination. It describes the practical methods of feed decontamination and the use of feed additives where mycotoxin contamination prevention has failed. However, th...

Mycotoxins in Norwegian food and feed

Mycotoxins are toxic secondary fungal metabolites. A large variety of mycotoxins have been described, but only a minority of them occur regularly in feed and food items under normal conditions and pose a risk to feed and food safety. The important moulds producing toxins during storage belong to the genera of Penicillium, or Aspergillus. The most important storage toxins are probably ochratoxin...

Promising Detoxification Strategies to Mitigate Mycotoxins in Food and Feed

Mycotoxins are secondary fungal metabolites associated with adverse human health and animal productivity consequences.[...].

Microbial detoxification of eleven food and feed contaminating trichothecene mycotoxins

BACKGROUND Contamination of agricultural commodities with multiple trichothecene mycotoxins, produced by toxigenic Fusarium species, is a food safety issue, which greatly affects grain production and marketing worldwide. Importantly, exposure to multiple trichothecenes may increase toxicity in animals due to their synergistic and/or additive effects. To address the problem this study aimed to a...

Mycotoxins in Cereal and Soybean-Based Food and Feed